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The Ozark terrain contains unique land forms, shaped during the land's distant past. The Ozarks, which contain some of the oldest exposed rock in North America, have undergone a series of uplifts, erosional cycles, climatic changes, and geologic events such as volcanoes and earthquakes.

The land also contains a variety of different rocks from hard, weather-resistant granite to limestone and dolomite that can be dissolved by water.

Because of this geologic variety, the Ozarks have special landscape features such as sinkholes, shut-ins, weather-shaped large rocks and entrenched meandering steams.

— excerpted from the Missouri State Museum, Jefferson City, Missouri.
12/31/06, photo credit, J. Heston. Location: northern Taney County


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bald knob: a treeless, but usually grass-covered knob. See knob.
Glossary, page 169

cove: in Ozark parlance, a narrow, steep-walled valley with a spring or waterfall at the head, which usually falls swiftly to a larger valley at the cove mouth. On Ozark lakes, locals also use the word "cove" as it is widely known, to mean a small, enclosed arm of the lake.
Glossary, page 169

holler: Ozark spelling /pronounciation of "hollow." The word holler, of course, means "to yell"; the two meanings can be distinguished by context. See hollow.
Glossary, page 171.

hollow: a narrow valley or deep depression n the terrain. There are tousands of hollows in the Ozarks, among the hills and knobs. See knob.
Glossary, page 171

knob: (sometimes spelled nob) a narrow, high hill with a capstone top, surmounted by a dirt dome. Knobs may be tree-covered or bald (without trees but grass-covered.
Glossary, page 171

Excerpts — Young, Richard & Judy Dockrey, Ozark Ghost Stories, August House Publishers Inc., 1995.